Re: [Duplicity-talk] Setting the PASSPHRASE inside the duplicity program itself

[Steven Willoughby]

Charles Knowlton wrote:
> How would I set the PASSPHRASE inside the duplicity program itself?

I'm not sure why you would want to do this instead of using the
environment variable.

> I am looking at this section of code:
>
> def get_passphrase():
> """Get passphrase from environment or, failing that, from user"""
> try: return os.environ['PASSPHRASE']

All you need to do is:

def get_passphrase():
        """Get passphrase from environment or, failing that, from user"""
        try: return os.environ['PASSPHRASE']
        except KeyError: pass
        if not globals.encryption: return "" # assume we don't need passphrase

        return "blarg"

The rest of the function would then no longer be necessary.

> I had tried setting the variable pass1 = 'test'
> but that didn't work. I got this error message:
> File "/usr/bin/duplicity2", line 38
> self_pass1 = "crap"
> ^
> IndentationError: expected an indented block
>
> I don't have a clue as to what it means and I don't know anything 
> about Python.

Python is whitespace dependent. It cares about the number of spaces or
tabs at the beginning of each line as that is how it determines when a
function definition ends. The line that you changed should begin with
two tab characters.

Steven